Red Queen To Gryphon Three

Sound DNA

• Rock
• Prog Rock

• lush
• whimsical
• pastoral

About

This fully instrumental concept album about the rather well known game chess is widely and deservedly regarded as Gryphon’s crowning achievement. Here they found the perfect balance between their medieval folk style and progressive rock influences mainly from Gentle Giant and Mike Oldfield. The album also introduced tasteful and sparse use of synths to the band’s sound, which can be heard right away on the opening chords of “Opening Move”. The track itself follows many of the same structural ideas and complexity of the title-track from the previous album, but now with a stronger progressive rock feel mixed in with .

via Last.fm

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